Toms River police say Kenneth Lee Price Jr. crashed this car on Cedar Grove Road after getting angry that his girlfriend would not buy him cigarettes.

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Margaret F. Bonafide
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An Egg Harbor Township man was so angry that his girlfriend would not buy him a pack of cigarettes that he intentionally swerved his 2009 Pontiac back and forth on Cedar Grove Road until he lost control and hit a utility pole, police said after investigating the Friday crash.

Bystanders told police that the driver, later identified as Kenneth Lee Price Jr., 27, got out of the crashed car before police arrived around 10 a.m., abandoning his 21-year-old girlfriend, who was bleeding profusely from a head injury suffered when the car hit the pole, said Ralph Stocco, spokesman for the police. The car ...